New Webinar: Building Bonds of Attachment

Building Bonds of Attachment: Practical, Expert Advice

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 -  7:00PM-8:00PM  Central Time -  Q&A: 8:00PM  

Secure parent-child attachments are essential for children. Often, adoption can pose challenges to the attachment process. Circumstances prior to adoption, either in utero, in an orphanage or in foster care, can create serious barriers to attachment.

Join us for a webinar with Deborah Gray, an adoption therapist specializing in attachment, grief and trauma issues in children.  Deborah will provide practical steps that move parents toward secure attachments with their child.

• Recognize behaviors that are common in adopted children who have experienced trauma
• Learn bonding activities that result in healthy relationships in the short term and throughout childhood
• Maintain relationships with children already in the home

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Last Chance To Register! Expectations vs.Realities: Parenting an adopted child with special needs

Thursday, January 17, 2013  - 7:00PM - 8:00PM Central Time - Q&A: 8:00PM   


Is your child emotionally acting much younger than their age? Have special needs you weren't expecting? Behaviors that resemble ADHD?

You are not alone. These challenges are common for post- institutionalized children. Finding help, however, can be difficult.

Join us for a webinar featuring Martha Osborne, adopted person, adoptive mom and founder of the largest special needs adoption advocacy website, RainbowKids.com. Martha will lead an "in the trenches" discussion on how parents can get connected and supported.

• Learn how to build a plan to manage undiagnosed special needs
• Consider new, outside the box suggestions on how to address unexpected cognitive and emotional delays

Understand how proactive parenting can help!

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NEW WEBINAR: Expectations vs. Realities: Parenting an Adopted Child with Special Needs

Thursday, January 17, 2013
7:00PM - 8:00PM  Central Time
Q&A: 8:00PM   

Is your child emotionally acting much younger than their age?  Have special needs you weren't expecting? Behaviors that resemble ADHD? 

You are not alone.  These challenges are common for post- institutionalized children. Finding help, however, can be difficult.

Join us for a webinar featuring Martha Osborne, adopted person, adoptive mom and  founder of the largest special needs adoption advocacy website, RainbowKids.com. Martha will lead an "in the trenches" discussion on how parents can get connected and supported.

Learn how to build a plan to manage undiagnosed special needs. Consider new, outside the box suggestions on how to address unexpected cognitive and emotional delays. Understand how proactive parenting can help!

REGISTER

Register now for Webinar #2: Effective Management of ADHD in Children with FASD

Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders may benefit from medications to address Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other co-morbid conditions. However, children with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder present in a more complex way than do children in the general population. A comprehensive understanding of how ADHD should be identified and treated in children affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol is essential for professionals working with these children in order to develop an effective treatment plan including medication in combination with appropriate therapeutic interventions. 

REGISTER FOR WEBINAR #2

Presented by Dr. Gwendolyn Messer
May 7, 2012, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Live Q & A 3:00-3:15 p.m. Eastern Time

Price: $12.99

CEUs are available for social workers through the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). Each webinar is worth one (1) CEU and requires the successful completion of a ten-question post-test (sold separately).

Please visit our website for more information.

Upcoming Webinars

NTI Upstream's webinars are designed to help individuals and communities translate clinically-based research into strategies that serve families and children affected by prenatal substance exposure.This first series of webinars focuses on advanced topics in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. It has been developed with experienced clinicians, attorneys, child welfare, adoptive and foster parents, and social service professionals in mind.                     

June 25 - Infant Mental Health and FASD: How do Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Present in Infancy? - REGISTER NOW

August 27 - FASD and the Courts - REGISTER NOW

October 29 - FASD in Adolescents: Special Considerations - REGISTER NOW

December 17 - Eight Steps to Managing a Child's Difficult Behavior - REGISTER NOW

Please visit www.ntiupstream.com/ntiwebinars for more information!